The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Twin Cities Area
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The End of the Line in Currie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moving Old Hibbing
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Enter Marlon Brando
The Little Marais Inn
Old Brewery In Preston
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Dotson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Wasioja
The Almelund Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Red Wing Iron Works
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Little Falls Depot
The Le Sueur Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City